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- When watching a 150-minute film, you'll miss fifteen minutes of it by blinking. Even weirder: other people will miss the same 15 minutes in an effect called "synchronized blinking." [BLDGBLOG]
- Talk about spanning the culture gap: these videos of Arthur Schoenberg's dissonant 'Three Piano Pieces' are composed solely of YouTube videos of cats pounding on pianos. [Cory Arcangel's Internet Portfolio Website and Portal]
- It seems like only yesterday that Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 into the world. Now, Lifehacker's got a look at mockups of version 4.0 of the popular open-source browser. [Lifehacker]
- Scientific American has got a list of decades-old spacecraft and satellites still on the job. [Scientific American]
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Subscribe to commentsAmunJul 29th 2009 8:35PM
"When watching a 150-minute film, you'll miss fifteen minutes of it by blinking. Even weirder: other people will miss the same 15 minutes in an effect called 'synchronized blinking.'"
This is a complete fabrication due to the "purplemonkeydishwasher" effect. The study that this junk statement is based on finds that only 23-31% of people blinked at the same times during a film. They also assumed that each blink was 10x longer than the actual length of time your eyes are closed.